EP1083129B1 - Bouteille couverte par un manchon retractable - Google Patents

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EP1083129B1
EP1083129B1 EP99870181A EP99870181A EP1083129B1 EP 1083129 B1 EP1083129 B1 EP 1083129B1 EP 99870181 A EP99870181 A EP 99870181A EP 99870181 A EP99870181 A EP 99870181A EP 1083129 B1 EP1083129 B1 EP 1083129B1
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bottle
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sleeve
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Alan David Blake
Patrick Jean-Francois Etesse
Karen Amanda Johnson
Gates Markham Moss
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Procter and Gamble Co
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Priority to AT01203386T priority patent/ATE272546T1/de
Priority to DE69901904T priority patent/DE69901904T2/de
Priority to ES99870181T priority patent/ES2177213T3/es
Priority to ES01203386T priority patent/ES2222963T3/es
Priority to BR0013917-3A priority patent/BR0013917A/pt
Priority to MXPA02002606A priority patent/MXPA02002606A/es
Priority to AU64640/00A priority patent/AU6464000A/en
Priority to JP2001523288A priority patent/JP2003509298A/ja
Priority to CA002382881A priority patent/CA2382881A1/fr
Priority to CN00812742.5A priority patent/CN1373724A/zh
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D23/00—Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for
    • B65D23/10—Handles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D23/00—Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for
    • B65D23/08—Coverings or external coatings
    • B65D23/0842—Sheets or tubes applied around the bottle with or without subsequent folding operations
    • B65D23/0878—Shrunk on the bottle

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  • the invention relates to packages such as bottles used for containing fluids, and which are made by a shrink-sleeving process.
  • Bottles are widely used in consumer goods industry for packaging various type of fluid products. Such bottles are normally decorated, often using labels which are stuck onto the bottle. Such labels are typically used not only for decoration but also to display usage instructions or information on the composition of the content for example.
  • conventional labelling technology such as wet glue labels, self-adhesive labels, or in mold labels do not allow to decorate the full bottle surface area. The accumulation of such visual signals led the industry to develop new approaches allowing higher decoration coverage of the container's surface, one of them being the shrink-sleeving of packages.
  • Shrink-sleeving is mostly used in the drinks industry, whereby a sleeve of thermo-plastic material may be shrunk all around a beverage bottle, thus offering an extended area which may be used for any type of graphics.
  • Typical thermoplastic materials used for shrink sleeving include polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyestertetraphtalate (PET), oriented polypropylene (OPP) and oriented polystyrene (OPS).
  • shrink-sleeving did not extend to relatively larger containers, particularly because of the need of a side handle when such containers are used.
  • the sleeving of a bottle consists in inserting the bottle into a straight sleeve of thermo-plastic material, the thermo-plastic being then heated up to shrink and fit tightly around the container.
  • such a process would lead to preventing access to the handle as the sleeve would cover the recess produced by the handle, so that the handle cannot be gripped.
  • EP-A-0 609 575 discloses a sleeved bottle having a handle which merges with the side of the bottle at two regions (i.e. top and bottom of the handle).
  • the sleeve is provided with a cut-out substantially corresponding to the position of the gripping handle.
  • the cut-out must be relatively large in order to extend between both of the two merged regions of the handle and bottle, so that the cut-out region encompasses the whole handle. The relatively large cut-out is prone to misalignment and or tearing during the sleeving process.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a bottle with a side handle, whereby the surface available for displaying graphics onto the bottle is maximised.
  • the object of the invention is accomplished by a bottle having a base, a top part and sides, the bottle comprising a handle, the handle being an integral part of the bottle and being located on a side of the bottle, the bottle being shrink-sleeved, whereby the handle merges with the side of the bottle in one region only, and whereby the sleeve does not cover the handle.
  • the invention relates to a decorated bottle where the means of decoration is a shrink sleeve.
  • the term bottle hereby should be understood generally as a container for fluid products, fluid products including liquids as well as flowing materials such as powders or granule.
  • the bottle has a base.
  • a base it should be understood a part of the bottle on which the bottle is left to stand up-right. This part my be flat, on may for example be formed from a moulded tripod, or from a flat ring. Many types of "base” are known in the art, the main feature of such a base being to hold the bottle in a stable position on a flat supporting surface.
  • the bottle further comprises a top part.
  • the top part is typically the part of the bottle opposed to the base.
  • the top is commonly the part of the bottle which provides an exit for the content of the bottle.
  • the bottle also comprises sides.
  • the sides are the surfaces which generally speaking are joining the top and the base of the bottle. Typically, when the bottle is upright, the sides are substantially vertical and perpendicular to the base.
  • the sides may also have a curved or relatively complex shape depending on the bottle considered.
  • the bottle comprises a handle located on a side of the bottle.
  • the handle according to the invention is normally forming a recess in the vertical direction when the bottle is upright, the recess being such that a user may slide the hand in the recess to hold the bottle by the handle.
  • the bottle is shrink-sleeved.
  • Shrink sleeving consists in enveloping a part of the bottle in a thermoplastic tube like sleeve, the sleeve being heated to shrink and fit onto the bottle.
  • the sleeve does not cover the handle. This conveniently . reduces the likelihood of contact between a consumer hand and the sleeve cut-out fringe when gripping the handle.
  • the sleeve fringe can exhibit sharp edges which can result in paper cut to consumer hands or simply unpleasant contact. In this manner, access to the handle is easy and direct, the user gripping directly the handle itself, without being in contact with the sleeve.
  • the handle is an integral part of the bottle, the handle merging with the side of the bottle in one region only, the sleeve being cut out in the merging region.
  • the cut out in the sleeve should preferably have a surface at least equal or larger than the largest cross section of the handle, so that the sleeve may be placed onto the bottle prior to shrinking, the cut out being slipped onto the handle, the sleeve being shrunk thereafter.
  • the cut-out has a closed perimeter. It should be noted that the cut out may have a surface slightly smaller than the cross section of the handle where the handle merges with the side of the bottle.
  • the handle is an integral part of the bottle, the handle merging with the side of the bottle in one region only, the sleeve covering the sides of the bottle from the base up to the merging region, or whereby the sleeve covers the sides of the bottle from the top down to the merging region.
  • a cut out for example as the sleeve is simply positioned from the top or from the base up to the region where the handle merges with the side of the bottle.
  • a. cut out may be provided, the cut out having in this case a non-dosed perimeter, whereby the sleeve may be slipped on the bottle beyond the region where the handle merges with the side.
  • the cut out in this case is an indent in the sleeve allowing the sleeve to reach beyond the merging region mentioned above.
  • the handle is an integral part of the bottle, the handle merging with the side of the bottle in one region only, a first sleeve covering the sides of the bottle from the base up to the merging region, and whereby a second sleeve covers the sides of the bottle from the top down to the merging region.
  • This embodiment corresponds to a combination of the two previous embodiments, and has the advantage to allow coverage by the sleeve of a larger part of the bottle.
  • the sleeve covers at least 30% of the outer surface of the bottle, in order to provide for a sufficient surface to application of graphics. More preferably, the sleeve covers at least 50% of the outer surface of the bottle, even more preferably 65%, and most preferably at least 80% of the outer surface of the bottle. It should be understood the "outer surface of the bottle” hereby comprises the whole outer surface, including the outer surface of the base, or of the handle for example.
  • the bottle has an internal volume of at least 1 litre and of less than 5 litres. Even more preferred is a bottle with an internal volume of less than 3 litres. Indeed, a handle would not be particularly needed for smaller bottles, and a side handle would be preferably replaced by a top handle for larger bottles.
  • the cutting of the sleeve can be achieved by various means such as mechanical die cutting, laser cutting or water jet cutting.

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Claims (6)

  1. Bouteille ayant une base, une partie supérieure et des côtés, la bouteille comportant une poignée (2), la poignée (2) faisant partie intégrante de la bouteille et étant disposée sur un côté de la bouteille, la bouteille étant entourée par une enveloppe rétractée, de telle sorte que l'enveloppe (3) ne recouvre pas la poignée (2), caractérisée en ce que la poignée (2) se raccorde au côté de la bouteille dans une zone seulement.
  2. Bouteille selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle l'enveloppe (3) est découpée (4) dans la zone de raccordement.
  3. Bouteille selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle l'enveloppe (3) recouvre les côtés de la bouteille depuis la base jusqu'à la zone de raccordement, ou bien dans laquelle l'enveloppe (3) recouvre les côtés de la bouteille depuis le sommet en descendant jusqu'à la zone de raccordement.
  4. Bouteille selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle une première enveloppe recouvre les côtés de la bouteille depuis la base jusqu'à la zone de raccordement, et dans laquelle une deuxième enveloppe recouvre les côtés de la bouteille depuis le sommet en descendant jusqu'à la zone de raccordement.
  5. Bouteille selon l'une quelconque des revendications ci-dessus, dans laquelle l'enveloppe (3) recouvre au moins 30 % de la surface extérieure de la bouteille.
  6. Bouteille selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans laquelle la bouteille a un volume interne d'au moins 1 litre et inférieur à 5 litres.
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EP99870181A EP1083129B1 (fr) 1999-09-10 1999-09-10 Bouteille couverte par un manchon retractable
AT01203386T ATE272546T1 (de) 1999-09-10 1999-09-10 Flasche mit schrumpfbarer manschette
DE69901904T DE69901904T2 (de) 1999-09-10 1999-09-10 Flasche mit schrumpfbarer Manschette
ES99870181T ES2177213T3 (es) 1999-09-10 1999-09-10 Botella cubierta por un manguito encogible.
ES01203386T ES2222963T3 (es) 1999-09-10 1999-09-10 Botella cubierta por un manguito encogible.
EP01203386A EP1176100B1 (fr) 1999-09-10 1999-09-10 Bouteille couverte par un manchon retractable
BR0013917-3A BR0013917A (pt) 1999-09-10 2000-08-28 Garrafa com encamisamento encolhìvel
MXPA02002606A MXPA02002606A (es) 1999-09-10 2000-08-28 Botella enfundada por encogimiento.
AU64640/00A AU6464000A (en) 1999-09-10 2000-08-28 Shrink sleeved bottle
JP2001523288A JP2003509298A (ja) 1999-09-10 2000-08-28 収縮スリーブ付きボトル
CA002382881A CA2382881A1 (fr) 1999-09-10 2000-08-28 Bouteille a manchon retractable
CN00812742.5A CN1373724A (zh) 1999-09-10 2000-08-28 装有收缩套管的瓶子
PCT/IB2000/001184 WO2001019692A1 (fr) 1999-09-10 2000-08-28 Bouteille a manchon retractable

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AT (1) ATE272546T1 (fr)
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BR (1) BR0013917A (fr)
CA (1) CA2382881A1 (fr)
DE (1) DE69901904T2 (fr)
ES (2) ES2177213T3 (fr)
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AU6464000A (en) 2001-04-17
BR0013917A (pt) 2002-05-14
WO2001019692A1 (fr) 2001-03-22
CA2382881A1 (fr) 2001-03-22
EP1083129A1 (fr) 2001-03-14
MXPA02002606A (es) 2002-07-30
ES2177213T3 (es) 2002-12-01
ATE272546T1 (de) 2004-08-15
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EP1176100A1 (fr) 2002-01-30
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